The Morse Complex for a Morse Function on a Manifold with Corners
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arXivmath/0406486MaRDI QIDQ6474159FDOQ6474159
Authors: David G. C. Handron 
Publication date: 23 June 2004
Abstract: A Morse function f on a manifold with corners M allows the characterization of the Morse data for a critical point by the Morse index. In fact, a modified gradient flow allows a proof of the Morse theorems in a manner similar to that of classical Morse theory. It follows that M is homotopy equivalent to a CW-complex with one cell of dimension lambda for each essential critical point of index lambda. The goal of this article is to determine the boundary maps of this CW-complex, in the case where M is compact and orientable. First, the boundary maps are defined in terms of the modified gradient flow. Then a transversality condition is imposed which insures that the attaching map is non-degenerate in a neighborhood of each critical point. The degree of this map is then interpreted as a sum of trajectories connecting two critical points each counted with a multiplicity determined by a choice of orientations on the tangent spaces of the unstable manifold at each critical point.
Critical points and critical submanifolds in differential topology (57R70) Vector fields, frame fields in differential topology (57R25)
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